Tag - parenting

In our busy lives, we sometimes forget to be thankful for the things that we have. I would encourage all of you to add a Gratitude jar into your family life. It is a simple way to intentionally be thankful for what we have in life.

This vlog is for both parents and students. Just some thoughts for those students who did not get a summer job. I have had about 50 conversations with parents about students, summer jobs, and responsibilities around the house in the past few months. I think we need to address these conversations up front?

Students: things you should not do this summer
Students: thinks you should be doing this summer
Parents: are we equipping our kids properly in this area?

We are living in a world where the question is not if your kids will see pornography, but when. We need to help equip our kids to deal with porn. This video shows 2 great books for parents of young children that you can read with your kids to help explain this tough topic.

Please don’t buy into all of the “Sky is falling” emails saying you must to delete these apps off of your kid’s phones or else. Talk to your kids about apps, just don’t delete them. Common sense and teaching our kids proper use of technology must rule over fear.

Parents often message me talking about their kids and their addiction to their phones. We rarely talk about the phone use of us as parents.

Yet for all the talk about children’s screen time, surprisingly little attention is paid to screen use by parents themselves, who now suffer from what the technology expert Linda Stone more than 20 years ago called “continuous partial attention.” This condition is harming not just us, as Stone has argued; it is harming our children. The new parental-interaction style can interrupt an ancient emotional cueing system, whose hallmark is responsive communication, the basis of most human learning. We’re in uncharted territory.

I do not think most of us realize just how much time we spend each day on our phones. As a parent, we need to teach our kids about healthy use of technology. I think this is something that we have to model well for our kids so learning how much time we as adults spend on our phones is also helpful. I challenge each of us in our families to install this app I talk about in this short video and get some real data for your family.